pseudostate
See also: pseudo-state
English
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Noun
pseudostate (plural pseudostates)
- (politics) A geopolitical entity which has some of the trappings of an independently-governed country or territory, but which lacks real independence and is not recognized as a self-governing political entity by the international community of nations.
- 1994 July 29, Bill Keller, "Back to the Land: South African Blacks Walk a Legal and Economic Maze," New York Times (retrieved 19 Aug 2014):
- In 1975 the state decreed that the Mfengu were really Xhosa, and that their traditional "homeland" was 300 miles away, in a Xhosa pseudostate called Ciskei.
- 2013 Sept. 23, Matt Steinglass, "Democracy in America: Rebels and tyrants," Economist (retrieved 19 Aug 2014):
- For Iran, Syria is a counterweight to any Sunni resurgence in Iraq, as well as the conduit to Hizbullah, its client Shiite pseudo-state in Lebanon.
- 1994 July 29, Bill Keller, "Back to the Land: South African Blacks Walk a Legal and Economic Maze," New York Times (retrieved 19 Aug 2014):
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